Am I the only one who feels that these media companies should police their own issues? Let them fail and maybe in their wake someone with a solution will arise. How much money is the government willing to throw away protecting non essential services...

Am I the only one who feels that these media companies should police their own issues? Let them fail and maybe in their wake someone with a solution will arise. How much money is the government willing to throw away protecting non essential services...

They don't want to police them, their whole business is based on piracy, the last thing they want is to remove copyrighted content from their servers, they only do so when required to avoid prosecution.

Edit: Guess you were speaking about the big media firms, not the companies like Megaupload.Edited by Telimektar - 1/23/12 at 5:18am

Am I the only one who feels that these media companies should police their own issues? Let them fail and maybe in their wake someone with a solution will arise. How much money is the government willing to throw away protecting non essential services...

Nope your not the only one...
The movie industry needs to do something themselves.
Stop paying these rediculous prices for average overhyped actors
Make an online movie store something similar to what Apple did with iTunes
Lower prices to 5 euro per movie

I bet everybody will be to lazy to pirate movies if the price is right and they are easy to buy online.

Last time i checked, the music/movie/entertainment industry was still ticking along quite nicely, so shutting down file sharing sites is only going to accomplish one thing....more money in the hands of multi-millionaires.
There are many things in this world that concern me....people nicking the odd movie or music file off the internet isn’t one of them!

This really, and to think those guys might face prison for 55 years! 55!! Jesus, there's like pedobears, rapists and murderers out there on the loose that when locked up are out in 5 - 10 years and there is still plenty of them about on the streets. Nice to see they have their priorities right!
I don't get it.

Nope your not the only one...
The movie industry needs to do something themselves.
Stop paying these rediculous prices for average overhyped actors
Make an online movie store something similar to what Apple did with iTunes
Lower prices to 5 euro per movie

I bet everybody will be to lazy to pirate movies if the price is right and they are easy to buy online.

^ This, rather than putting over payed crap actors in films. They should be getting the up and coming actors that can really act . All this an explosion a second, 3D, CGI over hyped rehash from the 80's & 90's crap gets really boring. I think that DVD prices need to come down as well, I've seen the same thing on Blu-Ray for only a few quid more.